So I've Heard
On Life
- Jennifer Elisabeth -“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
On Travel
- Forrest Curran -“Just as much as it is about booking flights, sharing hostel rooms with strangers, and learning to say hello in a variety of languages; travel is about the momentarily times of breakdowns, longing of all the great things back home, and the tears you hold back from each good-bye, which in the entirety, makes up the honest human experience of living.”
On Life
- Lao Tzu -“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
On Life
- Charlotte Eriksson -“Leave that room, kid. Shut the screen off. Take your dirty shoes, not the pretty ones, and go out to feel the wind. Touch water. Touch earth. Touch wood, touch skin, touch everything you can touch and memorise everything because that’s all you will live off in the end, and that’s all you will need.”
On Travel
- Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan -“All of us,’ he said, ‘have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philosopher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel — the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.’
On Life
- Unknown -“I know you’re sad, so I won’t tell you to have a good day. Instead I advise you to simply have a day. Stay alive, feed yourself well, wear comfortable clothes, and don’t give up on yourself just yet. It’ll get better. Until then, have a day.”
On Love & Relationships
- Maya Angelou -“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
On Life
- Anna Quindlen -“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.”
On Work & Career
- Unknown -“A key to creativity is to pursue knowledge without a sense of whether it will be relevant in the future. Too often, people assume that they can judge in advance what they need to understand and what they do not. Instead, creative people build up their knowledge base so that they will be ready for the opportunities that come later.”
On Love & Relationships
- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch -“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
On Travel
- Anderson Cooper -“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.”
On Life
- Unknown -”You’re better off spending time alone than spending time with people who will hold you back with their victim mentality. Hang around people who want to be happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don’t mind saying sorry or thank you.”
On Life
- Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life? -“There are far too many smart, educated, talented people operating at quarter speed, unsure of their place in the world, contributing far too little to the productive engine of modern civilization. There are far too many people who look like they have their act together but have yet to make an impact. You know who you are.”
On Love & Relationships
- Unknown -“I fall in love with people’s passion. The way their eyes light up when they talk about the thing they love and the way they fill with light.”
On Travel
- Jawaharlal Nehru -“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
On Travel
- Greg Child -“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.”
On Life
- Katrina Mayer -“You can’t find happiness at the end of your journey if you didn’t bring it with you all along.”
On Travel
- Wilfred Peterson -“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”
On Travel
- Eric Roth -“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
On Life
- Leonardo da Vinci -“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
On Travel
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek -“An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave – I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing – but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.”